I was already going to inquire why you were silent, when
I received your letter. Your requests will be fulfilled.

Why do you say nothing either
(1) about a topic for Iskra
or
(2) about a feature article on
Tarasov[3]? Did you not
get my letter from Berne? Please reply as soon as possible
whether you intend to write a leading article for Iskra
on this or some similar theme. [As soon as possible,
because No. 28 is ready and the setting of No. 29 has begun.
In No. 28, there is a leading article by Vera Ivanovna
against the S.R.s to show that they are distorting history by
their inventions that no politicians were insulted in the
period of Narodnaya
Volya,[4] etc. The heading is: “Le
mort saisit le
vif”.[1]
]

How are your polemics with “Vladimirov” going? What
about your lecture? How are Lalayants’s and the other study
groups? What are the Zhizn
people[5] up to?

Notes

[3]
G. V. Plekhanov promised to analyse K. Tarasov’s (N. S.
Rusanov) article “The Evolution of the Russian Socialist Thinking”
published in Vestnik Russkoi Revolutsii (Herald of the Russian
Revolution). But he did it not for Iskra, but in his preface to
A. Tun’s History of Revolutionary Movements in Russia (1903).

[4]Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will)—a secret political Narodnik
terrorist organisation which came into being in August 1879,
after the split in the Narodnik Zemlya i Volya (Land and Freedom)
society.